[mercury-users] Implementing Edison in Mercury

[Ralph Becket]

> I've been looking at the Edison code & docs.  There are several
> places where I would do things differently, for example
> 
> [...]
> - change the behaviour of some functions (e.g. tail of the empty
> sequence should raise an error, not return the empty sequence,
> IMHO),

Reading further, it may be that this sort of default behaviour is
an artefact of the apparent difficulty of handling errors 
gracefully in Haskell.  But I'm not an expert.

Ralph
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
mercury-users mailing list
post:  mercury-users at cs.mu.oz.au
administrative address: owner-mercury-users at cs.mu.oz.au
unsubscribe: Address: mercury-users-request at cs.mu.oz.au Message: unsubscribe
subscribe:   Address: mercury-users-request at cs.mu.oz.au Message: subscribe
--------------------------------------------------------------------------